Philadelphia: Printed and published, by H. Maxwell, 1804. vii,[3]-53,[1]pp. Half title. Dbd. An occasional bit of foxing. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth folding box, spine gilt. Dedicated to Hamilton's widow, Elizabeth. About half the text is a condemnation of the practice of duelling. Heavily footnoted, with allusions..... More

[Boston?]. March 3, 1870. Small card, 8 x 5 cm., pasted to a piece of paper of similar size. Very good. Adams (1807-86), brother of Henry Adams and great- grandson of John Adams, was an important civic leader, railroad expert, historian and biographer. The card is signed and dated by Adams.More

Cambridge, Ma. 1905. 46pp. Original printed wrappers, slightly frayed at edge of front wrapper, else fine. Presentation copy to Harvard professor Charles Eliot Norton,this essay is a critical review of Rhodes' history covering the Civil War between the months of December, 1864 and August, 1866, and was reprinted from The... More

Boston. 1814. viii,31pp. Dbd. Some light foxing and tanning. Overall very good. This pamphlet relates to a controversy that ensued over the schoolbook abridgment of Adams' A SUMMARY HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND (1799), which Jedediah Morse had anticipated by producing his own school history. Adams, whose eyesight was failing, felt... More

Boston. 1814. viii,31; 4; 42pp. Gathered signatures, stitched. Lacks wrappers. Leaves a bit tanned. Pinhole to lower margin barely affecting a few letters. Else very good. An interesting set of tracts relating to a controversy that ensued over the schoolbook abridgment of Adams's A SUMMARY HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND (1799)... More

Salem: Pool and Palfray, 1808. 52pp. Stitched, as issued. Shelf label and institutional ink stamp on titlepage. Light tanning and foxing, slightly heavier to final leaves. Good. Critical response by John Quincy Adams to a pamphlet by Timothy Pickering, the United States Minister to Great Britain, regarding the tense relations... More

Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1837. 72pp. Stitched as issued. Light scattered foxing. Very gooD. In a half morocco box. After his bitter defeat in the 1828 presidential election, John Quincy Adams retired to Quincy, Massachuetts but soon responded to his constituents' call by serving as their Representative in Congress, commencing his... More

Boston. 1829. 80pp. Contemporary plain wrapper. Wrap bit chipped at spine, light scattered foxing. Good. Prints correspondence originally published in the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER wherein Adams accused certain but unnamed citizens of Massachusetts of engaging in a design to dissolve the union, a response of some Massachusetts citizens, and Adams' reply.More

Quincy [Ma.]. Nov. 24, 1813. [2]pp. Quarto. Old fold lines. A few small spots of foxing, faint stain from wax seal. Very good. In a folio-sized half morocco and cloth clamshell box, leather labels. A warm letter from former President John Adams to his dear friend and writer, Mercy Otis... More

[Passy. Jan. 4, 1779]. [2]pp. plus integral blank. Octavo, on a folded quarto sheet. Burnt at top margin, with loss of several words in upper left corner of first page. Corner loss repaired with later paper. Washed and silked. Fair. Fragment of a letter written and signed by John Adams... More

Washington, D.C. American Automobile Association, 1941. 656pp. including maps, illustrations and advertisements, plus two large folding maps. Printed stiff pictorial wrappers. Wrappers soiled and faded, a note in ink on the front wrapper. One leaf detached. Very good. Descriptions and points of interest for fourteen Northeastern states, the District of... More

Boston: Benjamin Edes and sons, Nov. 14, 1785. 4pp. Folio. Neatly silked on both sides of sheet. A few minor losses at old folds. Light soiling along top quarter of issue, else quite clean. Very good. The BOSTON GAZETTE, published weekly, was established in 1719 as a competitor to the... More

Boston: Benjamin Edes and sons, Feb. 3, 1783. 4pp. Folio. Old fold lines. Minor foxing and soiling. Very good plus. THE BOSTON GAZETTE, published weekly, was established in 1719 as a competitor to the BOSTON NEWS-LETTER and ran for nearly a century (1719-1798). From April 1756 to December 1793 it... More

[London or Augsburg. 1775-1778]. Eight mezzotints. Each uniformly matted. In a black half morocco box. Public curiosity for prints of Revolutionary heroes was not limited to America but spread to the English and European print shops, where an inquisitive audience clamored for a glimpse of the key figures of the... More

Boston: Re-printed by Thomas and John Fleet, 1780. Two volumes (of three), in original unbound gatherings, with original binder's stab holes in gutter, stitched, untrimmed. 88 (of 90); 381,[1],34pp. (lacking many leaves, as described below). Also with an extra variant copy of the first gathering (80pp.) only of the second... More

[Boston: Printed by Benjamin Edes], Nov. 2, 1776. Broadside, 15 x 9 1/2 inches. Several folds, minor staining, fold lines reinforced with archival tape on verso. Good. Early November, 1776, was a dark moment for the American side in the Revolution. Washington had been routed from New York, the victory... More